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EFF Tech Project Director Dr. Jeremy Gillula will be joining a panel on "Consumer Protection Implications of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive Analytics," as part of the FTC's "Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century." The hearing will examine competition and consumer protection issues associated with the...

Algorithms should not decide who spends time in a California jail. But that’s exactly what will happen under S.B. 10, a new law slated to take effect in October 2019. The law, which Governor Jerry Brown signed in September, requires the state’s criminal justice system to replace cash bail with...

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event:November Privacy Lab Please join Privacy Lab at Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), where Serge Egelman—Research Director of Usable Security and Privacy at ICSI—will share his research on how...

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event:Privacy Happy Hour Portland's Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays group typically doesn't have meetings in November and December because of the holidays that occur near both 3rd Mondays. This year, though, they're...

San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a virtual reality (VR) experience on its website today that teaches people how to spot and understand the surveillance technologies police are increasingly using to spy on communities.“We are living in an age of surveillance, where hard-to-spot cameras capture our faces and...

Join EFF and others on November 10 and 11 to celebrate the sixth annual Aaron Swartz Day, with a weekend of lectures, a virtual reality fair and a hackathon. This weekend we’ll join our friends at the Internet Archive in celebrating Aaron’s work as activist, programmer, entrepreneur, and...

EFF is filing an amicus letter in support of a petition for review, asking the California Supreme Court to overturn a harmful appellate court decision in Sander v. State Bar of California that could prevent people from requesting public records from databases that contain private information, even...

Google Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. Chrome routinely leads the pack in features for security and usability, most recently helping to drive the adoption of HTTPS. But when it comes to privacy, specifically protecting users from tracking, most of its rivals leave it in the...

EFF's Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel, Kurt Opsahl, will be at Roadsec São Paulo, Brazil, to discuss "Vulnerability Research and Disclosure: Pragmatic Advice for Security Researchers" on November 10th at 3pm on the Grace Hopper stage. This talk will focus on best and worst practices from both legal and...